Coles represented Australia as a canoeist at three Olympic Games and, as an IOC member, was central to Sydney winning the 2000 Games
Moscow 1980 against all requests for a boycott,” Bach said in a statement. “It made him proud for the rest of his life to have led these athletes into the Olympic Stadium.
Australian Olympic Committee president Ian Chesterman also paid tribute, saying Coles’s “service to Australian sport was immense”. “He greatly enjoyed the opportunity to watch the current-day competitors, the athletes being at the heart of his long service to the Olympic movement.”
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